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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The locative in Xitsonga will be discussed with attention to the following:
-Locative nouns with suffix –ini and prefix e- as a functional category
-Locative class nouns with nominal modifiers
-Place ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There are ten derivational affixes in Xitsonga of which only the reflexive is a prefix of a verb. Many of these affixes have no syntactic influence on the structure of clauses but they are only semantic ...

Attention has been focused on the syntactic structure in which these verbs may appear, various features specific to these verbs as well as some verb classes in
which these verbs regularly appear.
The syntactic structure ...

The Infinitive has received some attention in the recent past, beginning with the Government and Binding Theory with control theory and an Infinitive subject designation as PRO (see i.a. Chomsky 1981, 1982 and Haegaman ...

The copulative construction in the African languages of South Africa will be
considered within the following framework: firstly, an overview will be given of the
various copulas or copulative verbs or the absence of overt ...